Alice Springs RSL reopens after finance woes

The Alice Springs RSL will reopen this afternoon after being closed for more than eight months.

The club shut its doors owing hundreds of thousands of dollars to creditors and had to accept a bailout package worth more than $500,000.

The chief executive of the RSL in South Australia and the Northern Territory says trading will be limited to weekends until the club's kitchen has been refurbished.

However, Sam Jackman says veterans' services are still available for Alice Springs members.

"There still will be a committee within the sub-branch and they will still be responsible for commemorations, local commemorations and that sort of thing and also linkages to the veteran community so that we can still provide advocacy services to them and that will be done through the local sub-branch and the local committee," he said.